"Obviously we could continue this on and on, but I won't. Please don't put words in my posts and I'll try and not do that to you.
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My intention was not to put words into your post. I apologize if that was the impression you got from it.
I tend to use a bit of sarcasm in these threads...something I do not normally do in other threads.
What I meant to indicate is pretty much the same thing you were saying. Of the hundreds of creation stories bandied about by the hundreds of religions of man, they're all equally unbelievable, for me, since they all posit something supernatural ocurring.
For a person who believes in a particular religion, they all sound unbelievable, except the one they believe, on faith.
Evolution is an attempt to explain speciation, using scientific methods. Thus, it is taught in science classes as the best explanation currently available for speciation.
Science cannot teach religious stories. It's all that simple. Religion, being the wildly variable set of beliefs it is, must be taught elsewhere, since no two people I know share precisely the same religious beliefs.
Science is what it is. Is it correct? I don't know. I do know that current teaching makes sense, as far as it goes, and that's not far in our primary and secondary schools. Origins and evolution are taught briefly, then moved beyond to get at the hard scientific stuff that we can demonstrate.
I can see no possible way to teach any of the religious creation stories in public school classrooms. In every single classroom, you will find a variety of religious doctrines represented among the students. The Hindu child has one story, the Jewish or Christian kid has another, the Buddhist another, and so on.
It's an impossible task. Religion is for parents to teach their children and for their parents' choice of religious institutions to teach.